He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

Ce qui est en toi, ce qui fait ta vie, le sait déjà. Il est si bon de savoir qu’en nous réside quelqu'un qui sait tout, qui veut tout ce qui est pour notre bien et l’accomplit mieux que nous-mêmes.

I can think, I can wait, I can fast.